The University of Talca and CERN will conduct a workshop for students, professionals and academics that will be attended by senior ALICE members and young researchers, as well as academics from Talca University.

Armenuhi Abramyan, a Master student from the State Engineering University of Armenia and member of the ANSL/ALICE team received prestigious award from the President of the Republic of Armenia for her research.

CERN understands the great importance of science outreach. It’s part of CERN’s mission. Science organizations around the world and most scientists know that communicating science to the public increases public support of science, reduces potential misunderstanding, improves recruitment, and can even clarify in our own minds what the “big picture” really is about our science.

As from the end of this year, CERN will be using the new VIDYO platform for video conferencing. Vidyo will be replacing EVO, which shall be phased out, although it will be maintained through 2012 in order to have a backup communications platform during transition.

A collage of one of the most spectacular ALICE Pb-Pb events and the nuclear phase diagram made it to the cover page of October 25, 2012 issue of the Current Science journal. This issue features an article on the topic of “Phases of Nuclear Matter”.

Kim Beomkyu is a PhD student at the Yonsei University in South Korea working on the multiplicity density in pp collisions in ALICE. ALICE Matters met him and discussed his current research and his future plans

The 4th Asian Triangle Heavy Ion Conference was held in Pusan, Korea, following the 1st ATHIC in Seoul, the 2nd one in Tsukuba, and the 3rd one in Wuhan. Though the 'triangle' initially originated from three Asian (Korea, China and Japan) has now been extended to include India as a member of the International Advisory Committee.